There were plenty of story opportunities and conflict that didn't involve a happily ever after, everything is fine kind of story for those two. As we've seen, there also is no better life beyond the wall that we know of, nor is getting through it safe.
They're not settling down with all that mess going down as Sunny would be forced to take action to protect his family.
Why do people keep acting like they were just going to ride off into the sunset if Veil wasn't killed? Ride off where? The badlands are in chaos. They used the "Surprise, not dead!" Thing about 4 or 5 times this episode and it's just really weak. There's hundreds of ways they could have done it without doing it in a way where I think 99% of the audience knew there was going to be a final sting. Or have Sonny get defeated in the epic fight, Vail find a way to get involved to save Sunny while dying and then Sunny kill Quinn after Vail's sacrifice. If they wanted the huge fight, they possibly should have had a small fight with a plausible break point (like an explosion in the collapsing tunnels) then S+V make a run for it, at which point we'd probably have thought they were trying to keep Quinn for season 3, only for Quinn to recover, kill Vail and then have the epic fight. You can have the awesome, suspend-your-disbelief fight scenes without resorting to "A Ha! he's not really dead!" so often. I think people are mostly upset because it was so poorly done and telegraphed. I guess we're supposed to take Baije's, Tilda's and Waldo's word that she's actually a ruthless baron motivated by personal ego and greed? It's downright hilarious how little Sunny is threatened by mooks at this point, and how they keep charging him.Ħ) The Widow's heel turn is challenging. It's an amazingly evocative sound - that short message, and all it means is "help us - help us - help us."Ĥ) I know I said I try not to analyze the show to much, but this episode really should have been called "half measures."Ĥ.1) "Don't worrah, Lydiah, foah while it is true that Ah have planted exploahsives ahll ovah this redoubt of ahrs, they arh meahly theatricahl exploasives and will meahly throw sparks and possibly knock Sonny ovah."Ĥ.2) Lydia, if you knock two guys over with a shovel and kill the tougher one, maybe take a second and kill that second one instead of running from him.Ĥ.3) Gee, the crossbows worked pretty well, so let's (a) leave Sunny under a pile of rubble without investigating and (b) charge him with blades if he ever comes back.Ĥ.4) In a world where a gut stabbing is merely an inconvenience, Sonny definitely should have taken Quinn's head, then probably his arms and legs just to make sure Quinn decapitated body didn't somehow get up and attack him again.ĥ) Still, like I said, the fights and cinematography were awesome.
Between the beautifully composed shots and the fights, that's plenty.ģ) That said, I don't know if there are many things more powerful than the end shot, where it turns out that Baije has been spending this whole season all to send an SOS. It must be terrifying to live in a world that has monsters like those two.Ģ) I've started enjoying this show a lot more since I started treating it as something that's enjoyable to look at rather than to analyze.
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